I kept hoping this book would get better! The ingredients were there ... context, geography and characters but reading it was like reading one long beginning. The plot almost took of, it touched on some current and important and often neglected issues and focused on authentic aspects in the lives of contemporary woman. But the distractions from these were too visible. That all meant an unwillingness by the author to go deeper and a story that was superficial and tame. A shame - the prose flows, the detective character from her previous book, The Dry, is well sustained if a little overdone. The book just needed more story and more depth to the main issues.
That said Harper's second novel got 4* on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Force-Nature-Novel-Jane-Harper/dp/1250105633
and here's what the Guardian said
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/10/force-of-nature-by-jane-harper-review
NB I read the book on my Kindle so the above image is from Amazon, with thanks.
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